Dr Elena Chiti
Academic Visitor
Elena Chiti is a cultural historian of contemporary Egypt and an associate professor at Stockholm University. She holds a MA in Arabic language and literature from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and a PhD in history of the Middle East from IREMAM (Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds), Aix-Marseille University.
She is interested in the study of state-society relations through popular culture, in particular in times of turmoil. In this framework, she has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, within the project “In 2016. How it felt to live in the Arab world five years after the Arab Spring”, before joining the team of the project “DREAM, Drafting and enacting revolutions in the Arab Mediterranean, 1950s-today”. Her current research explores the criminalization and heroization of two Egyptian female criminals from the colonial epoch to the present.